Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I am from Vancouver, BC and I have been listening to your show for several months now and thought I would share my sighting. I have been a hunter for quite sometime and have spent lots of time in the bush in central BC and know most animals behaviors and what they look like from distances.

Last August 2 2018 my sister invited me out to a lake south of Merritt BC to camp, now this was in a range of mountains I haven’t really explored much just east of the infamous Coquihalla Highway.

My sister had given me terrible directions to this lake we were suppose to meet at now I decided to drag my little utility trailer to haul my quad so we could do some riding over the BC Day Long Weekend and as usual it had taken longer than expected to get up to the interior.

I arrived in Merritt about 11pm and still had to travel up the towards Kelowna to my first turnoff 5A south back down towards Princeton about 30KM to my second turnoff which is a Forestry Service rd. called Pike Mountain (which is a logging road ) this is where I realized my sisters directions were terrible now I have covered lots of ground on BC forestry roads and wasn’t too concerned I wouldn’t find it. I decided to park my truck and pull off the quad as I could cover a lot more ground quicker, by this time it was about 12:30 am.

I started to ride all over many different FSR roads and wasn’t getting to far because there is a lot of roads with no signage to this lake, I started too feel very strange about this trip at this point and began to feel very vulnerable without my shotgun.

I always travel the bush with shotgun and didn’t like this uneasy feeling I was experiencing, plainly things just seemed very strange. I was lost … I was way way up in elevation at one point and knew I was just from the temperature drop and bigger Spruce trees where I came upon a cow sleeping on the road, which I thought was strange. Anyways I decide to go down hill to some of the more main FSR roads and trudge on, when I got down in elevation I was traveling along and noticed a very very strong smell to put it bluntly it smelled like shit but incredibly strong, at this time I began to REALLY feel strange and was keeping the RPM’s on my quad up so as to make lots of noise as well as to have lots of power in case the need was there to really bolt.

It was the second time where I had smelled this smell again and when I turned a corner I had seen a mass about 10-11 possibly 12 feet tall greyish figure literally just calmly step aside behind a tree I need to say I have a very high powered LED light bar and know very well the way shadows from trees react from my light bar.

I know this was something I couldn’t explain. I didn’t slow down to look or turn around as this would have slowed me down so I just PUNCHED it, I was scared. I kept going and finally had found the lake where my sister and friends were. This was at about 2am now and so I settled down for a bit and decided I could not leave my truck out there so I left to go get it.

I had gotten lost AGAIN and I usually do very well in the bush with direction, I found this strange.I did finally find my truck and literally gotten lost again trying to find the lake. During this time of driving around the FSR roads I came upon a farm house in the mountains and the strange thing was there was a large light above the house which I have had a hard time explaining, it seemed to be illuminating this house I was thinking there was a movie being shot up there yet I did NOT see a single person walking around nor did anyone approach me at the gate when I pulled up to it (I have a loud diesel truck). This was incredibly strange.

I know that now it was about 3:30 am or 4am and was very tired and chalked it up as just overreacting, yet this light was inexplicably odd and was very high above and slightly behind the house kind of shining through the house but the house looked as though the light was in the walls like emitting from inside kind of like the house was glowing.

I then slowly turned around and kept trudging along to find camp. Eventually it started to get light out and found the main FSR road I needed to be on to find camp.

I know this story isn’t very compelling but for me it was powerfully odd especially the huge grey mass I had seen side step behind a tree. At the time I had never heard of a grey Bigfoot until my sister sent me an article from a local newspaper that had a link to another site where I had discovered there had been many sightings over the years of a grey Bigfoot in this region.

Since listening to your show and others I have been realizing things coming together with regard to things I have experienced in the bush from strange owls to sounds of like people chatting in the bush hunting in the middle of nowhere!!

I have always chalked it up as just other hunters or campers which could be true for some of the times I have heard these sounds, yet not all the time. Another time my cousin and I heard a god awful kind of scream or roar late one night at Red lake where he has some property we use for a base camp during hunting season. My cousins dog at the time Maggie would ALWAYS bark or investigate anything that moved in the bush (sadly she had to be put down because of this )but the night of this scream/howl Maggie just looked into the darkness and didn’t even flinch my cousin quietly pulled out his shotgun and we just sat there listening we didn’t hear it again and to this day I haven’t heard this sound again. (1972 there had been a sighting reported from Red Lake).

Like I said since hearing stories of Bigfoot it seems funny how you notice so many more things in the bush that I would normally not even notice.

I appreciate what you do with your show and giving people an opportunity to have an outlet where people feel heard. I think this is very important and is needed. Most people think Im crazy or actually they simply just dont have a reference point. My story isn’t as frightening as others although it is still an experience where I know the truth and I will never forget my shotgun again.”